I’ve been trying to find the information about how socialism has been tried, but its hard to find some solid information about the subject that does not have a strong capitalist bias. Apologies if I have failed in my search.
I’ve been trying to find the information about how socialism has been tried, but its hard to find some solid information about the subject that does not have a strong capitalist bias. Apologies if I have failed in my search.
Thank you for the well sourced and informative comment. I think I would probably place myself somewhere in between democratic socialist and socialist, so I definitely have more learning to do. I will do more reading on the sources you recommended and look further into the history. This is a good starting point, thank you!
No problem :)
If you’d like any book recommendations, let me know. A lot of westerners start out as “democratic socialists”, but quickly move past that after reading a few short works.
I would love some book recommendations if you wouldn’t mind sharing!
Sure! Dessalines has a good study plan, and there’s also a stickied list of book recommendations on !communism@lemmygrad.ml . Here’s some great introductory essays:
if I were to suggest 3 theory books to start out, they’d be:
For some good Marxist history, I’d recommend:
Many of these you can find either in audiobook form on youtube, or free on marxists.org, or libgen.
Awesome, thanks so much! I’ll definitely start out with some of those essays and move on to your book recommendations, much appreciated!